If Someone Is Making A Judgment When

I'm More Critical Of My Songwriting Than Anybody, But I've Worked Really Hard In The Last Five To 10 Years To Improve. I Didn't Take It All That Seriously When I Started. It Was A Little Bit Of A Stigma To Being A Songwriter Or A Folkie Back Then. I Did A Lot Of Send-ups Of Sensitive Singer-songwriter Stuff When I Was Starting Out, Which Limited My Development As A Songwriter In A Way. I Wasn't Really Fully Given License To Explore That Until The Mid-90s. I'm Still Working On It; I'm A Little Bit Of A Late Bloomer.

As Society Changes, As Politics Change, As People Change, Certain Songs Still Seem To Resonate.

My Whole Generation's Mission Is To Kill The Cliche...it's One Of The Reasons A Lot Of My Generation Are Always On The Fence About Things. They're Afraid To Commit To Anything For Fear Of Seeming Like A Cliche. They're Afraid To Commit To Their Lives Because They See So Much Of The World As A Cliche.

Maybe Certain Aspects Of What I Was Doing Were Reacting Against What Was Happening Or What People Said, Too. That's Something That Happens When You're Starting Out. After Some Time Goes By And You Get A Little Perspective, You Realize That You Don't Need To React. You Can Just Carry On With What You're Doing. That Took Me A Long Time Figure Out; I've Only Gotten To That Point In The Last Five Or 10 Years.

The Limitations Are Limitless.